117 Quotes by Nawal el Saadawi

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words.

I’ve lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha’is and Sunni and Shia.

You can’t ban books, people will find them.

To me, ‘beauty’ means to be natural, creative, honest – to say the truth.

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love.” “Yet I am living without love.” “Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

Knowledge is the highest form of worship for a Muslim believer.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it’s easy.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that’s my philosophy.